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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 2h

Julia, as usual, fucking nailing it to the wall.

www.thegauntlet.news/p/beyond-all...

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And what of clean air? An objection I often hear is that masking is an "individual intervention" and we need institutional change.
First, your individual intervention will halt chains of transmission. You personally will save lives, save humans from disability, and your decision to introduce masking and testing within your social circle helps move culture.
Culture is critical- especially if you're somebody influential like say, a New York Times journalist. But I'd also add that we will never get clean air without public pressure, and there will never be public pressure without public awareness that COVID is dangerous. As long as the public continues to treat COVID like a cold the government has no incentive to move on clean air. Step one is admitting you have a problem. The government hates masks so much these days because they are a visual challenge to its propagandist narrative: it is perfectly fine and healthy to repeatedly contract COVID-19.
This is a lie.

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Frank Witte @alarcos.bsky.social · 2h

The study of the inability, on display from many leaders, to see the 2025 US for what it currently is, is revealing either their incapacitating focus on their own heartache over the loss of their romanticised fiction of what the US was, or their terrified paralysis and lack of imagination of what to

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Hogula 🧛🏻‍♂️🐷🎃 @jessemackinnon.com · 5h

We are at war with everyone Trump feels like attacking that day. We are allied with the last world leader to blow smoke up his ass and tell him he’s the greatest President ever.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 9h

Wait so we’re also in an armed conflict against a completely different group? Sure yeah why not

Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergnyt.bsky.social · 14h

Pentagon discloses the latest strike on suspect boats in the Caribbean -- No. 7 in its current campaign -- with another video, but no evidence. In a first, this one is alleged to have ties to the Colombian insurgency group the ELN.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 6d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Harlem Toots @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4h

It’s amazing to see what’s come of the “Twitter isn’t real life” argument.

antifa’s girlfriend @asusophomore.bsky.social · 11h

This guy was probably pretty excited when Olivia Nuzzi got hired by Vanity Fair.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 17h

RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.

Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 18h

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

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Charlotte B., IT PMP @skiwithchar.bsky.social · 7h

SAME!!!!!!

Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 16h

They don't let me in the White House press pool because my question every day for the next week would be, "Does the president still want to take a shit on Americans?"

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Feb 5

TRUMP: *machine-guns crowd of pedestrians at Fifth Ave*

NYT: President's most daring argument for population control brings new scrutiny.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

I guess if I *had* to pick my favorite part of the video the president posted where he’s a big boy pilot and he pew pew pews his poop all over everyone, it would be the part where he shits on the American flag?

Trump’s fantasy of having one of his apparently uncontrollable liquid shits land on the American flag

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k-kelly-coho.bsky.social @k-kelly-coho.bsky.social · 12h

This country is now essentially being run by poop-throwing chimps.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 12h

Absolutely fascinating watching committed Trump voters sprint headlong into insanity to avoid admitting they fucked up

Imagine waking up and being like "fuck, I've gotta find a way to support King Trump defecating on Americans"

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 14h

Steve Bannon: “The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit.”

Media: "We cannot with certainty identify this mysterious brown substance."

Trump trolls ‘No Kings’ protests with obscene AI video and mulls invoking Insurrection Act: Live updates
Trump posts AI video showing him dumping brown liquid on to demonstrators after nearly 7 million took part in nationwide protests against him

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/no-kings-protest-trump-today-live-updates-b2847817.html

Trump posts a fake video of himself flying a ‘King Trump’ jet over protesters.
President Trump has posted a fake video on social media that showed him wearing a crown and flying a jet labeled “King Trump” that dumps brown liquid on protesters.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/us/politics/trump-fake-video-no-kings.html?smid=url-share

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 13h

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John Ismay @johnismay.bsky.social · 13h

An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say

www.nytimes.com

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 13h

You shouldn’t need a metaphor for how things are going in America, but just in case you do

John Ismay @johnismay.bsky.social · 13h

An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say

www.nytimes.com

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 14h

The president is a Republican. Congress is Republican. The courts are stacked with Republicans. If you’re blaming Democrats for what the US is doing right now, you’re furthering right wing propaganda that helps the Republicans implement fascism.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 14h

Lead front-page story in today's NYT

Time-travel dept:

-I don't remember front-page NYT stories "It's 1993, and GOP Is Still Running Against Clinton." That's what they did, for huge mid-term win.

-Nor "It's 2009, and GOP Is Still Running Against Obama." Which they did, for huge win.

Weird.

Headline: "It's 2025, and Democrats Are Still Still Running Against Trump"

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onion person @junlper.beer · 14h

everyone: we don’t want kings

rightwing media: this is a confusing protest line, no one is claiming trump is a king

the entire trump administration:

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 19h

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder on how Biden's garbagegate was covered as we wait to see how and if the Times covers the president virtually shitting on America.

NYT front page showing Biden garbage story above the fold.

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 15h

if i was still a reporter in congress and all my colleagues were walking on eggshells to avoid writing about the AI Trump Poop Jet Video i’d decide now was a good time to turn in my credentials in protest because what in fresh hell has happened to our profession

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h

Oh it’s not appropriate for your program to air the president wearing a crown and shitting on American citizens?

You’ll talk about it in euphemisms? Maybe call it the “crown video” and ignore the shitting part? Because that’s appropriate?

Tell me, was it appropriate for the president to do it?

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 16h

Sadly, this US administration is the biggest exporter of vaccine disinformation globally, with grave consequences for the whole world

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

US anti-vax stance to blame for continent-wide surge in measles, say experts

The disease was eliminated across the Americas in 2024, but urgent vaccination drives are now under way as cases rise from Mexico to Bolivia after outbreaks farther north

www.theguardian.com

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ceej @ceej.online · 5d

I think the leak of the incredibly racist young republican group chat only furthers the argument that millennials were the only generation able to use the computer without going insane, mostly because the computer was once a place separate from the real world. but now the real world is also computer

ceej @ceej.online · Apr 28

that a bunch of billionaires have been irreversibly brainwormed by getting addicted to a glorified chat room adds credence to my theory that spending too much time on IRC as a child acts as a powerful inoculant to the worst impulses of an escalatory group dynamic

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Wheezy McWindedpants @drumtroll.bsky.social · 16h

@govpritzker.illinois.gov is full of shit. He says he‘ll defend his people, but instead he sends his state police to brutalize them.

@jbpritzker.bsky.social‘s actions are those of an enemy of democracy.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 17h

Protesters are reporting today that state troopers at Broadview were exceptionally violent last night, lots of baton strikes including at heads and faces. Everyone arrested has been released.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1d

Chaos. ISP just made a charge, pushing people back east toward 25th Ave., right into cars pulling out of the parking lot. I hear people talking about arrests but it's too dark to see. People panic, run.

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Ed Hirsch @edhirsch.bsky.social · 1d

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